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By Vivian LeeOctober 29, 2016

You don’t have to be a Trump supporter to be shocked by the anti-Trump rhetoric flooding the commercial media. Features range from gross political propaganda to pseudo-human-interest stories, economic prognostications, and pure psychobabble. The slander and libel are everywhere you look. What does Trump think about this? Is he “working for Hillary” as has long been suspected?[1] And if so, what is he getting out of the deal? A kick in the butt? The short end of the stick? Just how Trump benefits is hard to fathom.

“Bury Trump in a Landslide,”New York Daily News, 10/20/16.

On October 20, the day after the third presidential debate, the New York Daily News ran a gigantic article on Trump’s many faults and follies (nydailynews.com interactive). In the introduction, we learn that Trump is a “liar, thief, bully, hypocrite, sexual victimizer and unhinged, self-adoring demagogue.” We also learn that his defeat is “all but certain,” a recurring theme in the barrage of anti-Trump propaganda. To help us negotiate this epic article, the News has divided it into 14 chapters: Trump the Demagogue, Trump the Fraudster, Trump the Head Case, Trump the Fake Philanthropist, Trump the Liar, etc. Oh yes – and Trump the Conspiracy Theorist. We have cute cartoons, one showing Trump with a Hitler mustache and another after having plastic surgery to make him look like Lincoln.

James O’Keefe of Project Veritas has released undercover, button-camera video that outlines the process of bird-dogging and how it is being used to rig the 2016 Presidential election of the United States in favor of Hillary Clinton and the Democrat Party. The central focus of the video, which is a collection of various undercover videos with commentary, is the process of “bird-dogging” which refers to essentially hiring people to behave as the equivalent to crisis actors. Except for the fact that there is no actual crisis, and these people are used to simply incite violence, among other things, to goad the media into giving Donald Trump’s campaign negative coverage.

Presidential Race Remains Dead Heat

“Why aren’t I fifty points ahead?!”

By James F. Tracy

With the first presidential debate just around the corner recent data from Ad Age indicates Hillary Clinton has outspent Donald Trump by about 3,300 percent for television and radio ads. Yet she has almost nothing to show for it. Most recent polling now indicates the race is a virtual dead heat in battleground states.

This despite the fact that major news media have provided very negative coverage of the Trump campaign (essentially subsidized partisan advocacy) and an overwhelming majority of deeply monied interests are supporting the Democratic candidate.

Blackout on Puerto Rico’s federal lawsuit against CDC over Naled

By James F. Tracy

Major Western news media’s coverage of the alleged dangers posed by the Zika virus and “preventative” measures mandated by overreaching federal agencies is a textbook example of censorship by omission, intentional oversight of facts, and deference to questionable “expert” authority to assuage valid public concern over aerial deployment of dangerous pesticides.

This summer South Florida public health authorities under the direction of the Centers For Disease Control asserted that a handful of Zika cases warrants a mass aerial spraying campaign to protect the public and unborn, all of whom may be susceptible to microcephaly—a prenatal neurological condition characterized by deformation of the head.

Globalist Forces Position For Crackdown on Free Speech

Rudy Takala for the Washington Examinerreports The Department of Commerce is set to hand off the final vestiges of American control over the Internet to international authorities in less than two months, officials have confirmed.

“If we’ve all been born into a world of mass deception, then this world of illusion has become our reality, it is our normal.”

Truthshock: the psychological condition induced by a barrage of Truthbombs. Oftentimes accompanied by distress, disbelief, and denial.

TruthShock. I did not appreciate when I created this blog how accurate, how prescient, how appropriate that title was. When I set out to create the blog I wanted to call it ‘The Forest’. Alluding to the well known quote; “One can’t see the forest for the trees”, which is alluding to the fact that when one is in the middle of ‘it’ it is difficult to see the whole, or to even realize there is a greater part. All one can see is the trees in their immediate vicinity, never realizing their reality is but a tiny part of a much greater whole. Thus one cannot see the whole Truth.

When I went to WordPress to create the blog I had no second choice, plan B, or back-up plan. I tried numerous variations of ‘The Forest’ and the quote it came from but they were all taken. I am unsure where ‘TruthShock’ came from. It just popped out. But frankly, it’s a much better title and descriptor than ‘The Forest’. It’s more direct. It’s grabs the attention. And more importantly, it’s true.

A Link to Michael Hastings’ Death?

MHB Commenter “Sue”

In an interview with ITV’s Robert Peston, the Wikileaks founder (Julian Assange) said, “We published an email where Hillary Clinton is instructing her staff to remove the classified header of a classified document and send it by non-classified fax.” That would be a felony for anyone else.

These Hillary e-mails are amazing, and I need to start taking notes. Joe Wilson, the United States Ambassador to Gabon sent her a message in which he apologizes for sending it directly to her rather than going through Sidney Blumenthal: ” I am taking the liberty of sending this directly to you rather than through Sid because it is of immediate import and is outside Sid’s area of expertise.”

Independent artist, author and journalist Bernie Suarez joins the program to discuss the history and modern dynamics of mass media and propaganda as they relate to government intrigue. James and Bernie also consider how corporate news media function as essentially public relations conduits to present unusual occurrences such as 9/11 and many recent mass shooting events absent any real journalistic
inquiry. Continue reading Truth and Art of Illusion→

(We are amused at the Guardian’s concern, especially since journalists and news orgs have participated with gov’t entities in the wholesale manufacture of stories for decades. See e.g. “The CIA and the Media,” MHB, August 2015.)

Britain’s center-left Guardian newspaper has apologized after it emerged one of its reporters had been fabricating interviews and falsely claiming to have been at events he wrote about.

Joseph Mayton, a California-based freelancer who has been writing for the paper since 2009, was accused of making up quotes in some stories and filing interviews with people who later said they had never spoken to him.

Like this:

The 1998 Robert Smigel animated short film “Conspiracy Theory Rock”, part of a March 1998 Saturday Night Live “TV Funhouse” segment, has been removed from all subsequent airings of the SNL episode where it originally appeared.

Memory Hole News/Analysis Feed: Scoop Feed

Originally posted on The PPJ Gazette: Marti Oakley ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ After a lifetime of voting with Democrats, this year I marked the box for a Republican. I think it says something about how politicians view the general public when someone with your history can even campaign for an office, much less think they should actually get…

Originally posted on ACADEME BLOG: In 2012, I proposed the term ‘breitbarting’ with a narrower definition than, I think, the word deserves today. At that time, I limited it to what Andrew Breitbart and James O’Keefe proved so skilled at doing. They designed strategies of interview, editing and presentation to make a predetermined point (not…

Originally posted on Socio-Economics History Blog: Published on Nov 18, 2016 Lindsey Bruce for Liberty Writers reports, This is a perfect example of why only 6% of Americans trust the liberal media. Democrats went crazy when Trump won the election last week. They took to the streets and rioted like animals. Read More/Source/Credit(FAIR USE): –…

Originally posted on The Militant Negro™: The man who lived by the sea he heard in the echo of shells his higher destiny with quiver and stride licking waves he set sail to Italy ensuring his mind rise above that of oppressed under tyranical yoke he is a mystery perhaps shrouded in mist I hear…

Originally posted on peoples trust toronto: Following last week’s dissonance-destroying victory for Donald Trump, San Francisco teachers are being offered a ‘Donald Trump lesson plan’ to “help students understand the election,” but, as NBCBayArea reports, opponents counter that it is leftist propaganda meant to scare children about the incoming president. Fakhra Shah, a teacher at…

Originally posted on YOUR PERCEPTION IS NOT REALITY: ? This is how out of touch with the people the elitist’s are. They probably have a 6k cellphone bill and thus think relative to that. There was a similar example in the past although I don’t remember the details where a politician remarked about an ‘normal…

By James F. Tracy (Originally published April 5, 2016) Police Lack Documentation of Lenny and Veronique Pozners’ Charges Against James Tracy On December 10, 2015 “Lenny and Veronique Pozner,” parents of Noah Pozner who allegedly perished in the December 14, 2012 Sandy Hook School massacre event, penned an incendiary article published by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. […]